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Ahead of Trump's arrival there
was speculation he may announce
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a pardon for Joe Arpaio the former sheriff
of Maricopa County Arizona and renown
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handler. Hardliner on immigration
policies chop however did give
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a strong indication he may at some time
in the future pardon the eighty five year
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old a par Pio who was recently convicted
of contempt of court for ignoring
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a judicial order to halt his immigration
patrols you know a lot I'll make
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a projection I think is going to be just
fine OK there were chaotic scenes outside
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the venue where they rally was being
held protesters were chanting and what
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appeared to be smoke bombs and fireworks
being set off. Police used tear gas and
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because of grenades to disperse groups
of protesters and some also fired pepper
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spray at crowds after someone apparently
locked rocks about bottles at the officers
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. At least seventy four people were
injured after a train derailed in
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a tar protests in India the second train
accident in the northern Indian state in
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the last three days the cafe at Express
derailed at two forty am local time when
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a truck carrying sand for can structure
instruction overturned in the tracks near
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a area town the train driver was forced
to put on the brakes and the impact cause
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a coaches to fall off the
rails this is V.O.A.
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News three young brothers have been saved
by emergency services after being trapped
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by
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a magnitude four earthquake that struck the
Italian island of Isha Jacob Greaves reports
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a miraculous escape and the making of one
memorable family reunion. The cheese
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coming from fire crews as the last of
three brothers is pulled from the rubble.
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That's the vive hours trapped below after
an earthquake hit the Italian island of
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a Monday night this the eldest of the
siblings far crews found his younger brother
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as the island has a population swells to
around two hundred thousand impacts some
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a month's most of the damage occurred in
the higher areas of the volcanic island
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away from the coast. Helicopters and
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a ferry boats have brought in extra rescue
workers from the mainland the quake hit
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just a few days before
the first anniversary of
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a major earthquake that killed nearly three
hundred people in central Italy most of
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them in the town of I'm
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a trace reporter Jacob graves the donations
children fine reports an alarming
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increase in the use of so-called human bombs
by Boko Haram insurgents in northeast
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Nigeria is
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a shrine has the story the onus of
spokeswoman Marie says eighty three children
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were forced to go on suicide missions She
says the consequences for all children
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are terrible because of their role
as human bombs She tells V.O.A.
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Children are widely viewed with suspicion
people are afraid of children who have
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been victimized in this absolutely appalling
way there are instances of children
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being ostracized by their communities
UNICEF calls the use of children as human
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bombs and atrocity and says they are above
all victims and not perpetrators it says
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rejecting children who have been released
by Boko Haram or have escaped simply
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compounds their suffering
they say shrine for V.O.A.
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News Geneva Panama's president says his
country will begin requiring an entry visa
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for Venezuelans beginning in October as
their homeland slips deeper into crisis
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President Juan color's Barela said that
recent events in Venezuela forced him to
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act to preserve Panama security at Qana
me and job sources North Korea's state.
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Media released new photos on Wednesday
that appear to show the designs of one or
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possibly two new missiles concept diagrams
of the missiles were hanging on the wall
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behind leader Kim Jong Un when he visited
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a plant that makes solid fuel engines for
the country's ballistic missile program
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one of the photos coolly
showed a diagram for
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a missile called the Puca song three
which appears to be the latest in its
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polarised serious in
Washington I'm Steve Miller.
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That's the latest world news from B O A.
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Good Morning America welcome to DAYBREAK
Africa from the Voice of America and James
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but in Washington today is Wednesday August
twenty third and here are some of the
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stories we're covering the main
opposition in the D.R. C.S.S.
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Has to engineer is team to keep President
Joseph Kabila empower. People around that
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. I want. And we've not understand that
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very complete. But did
not want people to all.
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MARTIN For you lose the member of the
main opposition coalition in the R.C.A.
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New as the rest emblem on
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a delegation from the into broody dialogue
has called on the government to release
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political prisoners
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a new report by UNICEF sees an increase
in the use of children as human bombs by
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Boko Haram and it trashed dumpsite
collapses kills ten people in.
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Its place the place right there you could
put the whole city more than forty years
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you know what would happen absolutely I'm.
Crushed So some people are leaving that
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site and we have a. C.D.R.
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To receive from a guinea prime minister
and leader of the Union Republican force
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a political party the World Health Organization
wants of the risk of disease follow
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a serious news deadly mudslide and hundreds
of South Sudanese children are left to
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fend for themselves and Ugandan refugees
those terrorists plus how Listen of the
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day are coming up on DAYBREAK
Africa. Let me opposition in the
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Democratic Republic of
Congo know as the resemble
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a man is accusing leaders of the Southern
African Development Community Sadik of
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engineering as came to keep president just
I've got below. In Powell but Martin for
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you
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a member of the group says the Congolese
people have already spoken that they want
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President Kabila to step down before the
end of this year at their annual summit
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which concluded last Sunday in Pretoria
this arctic leader said it was unrealistic
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to hold elections this year called for in
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a December twenty eighth sixteen agreement
because of security challenges on
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Tuesday the group said it was sent
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a special envoy to deal received to help
ease tension and also called on the
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electoral commission to make public the
revised electoral calendar before use says
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Sadik Hsu have provided help to the
commission to help it implemented twenty
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sixteen accord we totally.
Waived such as state
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to conclude it's summit we are saying
that long one no organization can the
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substitute itself to take over these people
the Congolese people have said that Mr
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Kabila should leave power by the end of
this year this is look negotiate and we can
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not understand that sub Erica Mr Zuma
and his colleagues saying that it's not
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possible to alter elections but why you
did didn't see the electoral commission
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before to see what help they need in
order to organize elections this year
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as mentioned by December thirty
first cause of last year Mr
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Cutler is doing all what he can do to
stop the lies the Congo and then to
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subsidize the all the region
this is August and then
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a week from now is September the sudden is
saying that is not possible that is not
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enough time to hold the elections
they won wherein we signed the call
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we met with the subject people. Last
March in the King Charles sun Why did is
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the do what was in their power to help
elect little commission to help the
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Congolese people to implement the echo why
did you do that they waited and now they
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come to know they can do what they let
their want but what we are saying you need
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to have the power if they have size to
defend mistaken view that they have
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a chance within Yaz to go this is what the
Congolese people want mystify you know
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what do you make of the decision by
Senate that they will be sending the
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a special envoy to your country because
of the tension that is going on will the
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rest compliment be able to meet
with a special envoy we only way is
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a meeting with people from Cedric he would
send someone we meet and we'll tell him
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what do we think the SADIC leaders
also condemned what they call.
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Interference East by countries
outside of the D.R.S.
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See is it
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a real addition on the part of the resemble
of mine that there are countries where
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interfering in the F.A.A. Is the D.N.C.
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I don't know if they really know what
they're saying the international community
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they have the high grade we've come when
these people they have said that we have
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to implement the December twenty
first two thousand and sixteen
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a quote they have an issue this illusion
by the Security Council resolution two
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three four eight I can't understand what
they want as because that the resolution
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is a for all world and I don't
know can come up both the U.N.
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Security Council elections went to be
held this year would you be ready to
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participate we will not
participate. In the next. We want.
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Transparent elections first of all we
want to mistake that villa to release
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a statement saying that the world drop
at the end of this year Secondly we want
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Electoral Commission to issue the
calander Thirdly we want the audit
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of the electoral are the G.'s we then
want to go to the election but we will
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not accept any election that will
not be transparent but the think
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the election or not you lection
disappearance mistaken as to
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Martin for you is
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a member of the main opposition coalition
in the as the recently moment he was
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speaking with me from the capital K.
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. It allegations from the into Broome the
dialogue led by facility turn and from
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a Tanzania President Benjamin cuppa has
ended three days of consultation with
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a broom the government the group called
on the government to release political
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prisoners and council the arrest warrants
for some opposition members to facilitate
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an inclusive dialogue most of the every
man has detailed from Bujumbura former
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president President Benjamin team and the
three days visit in Burundi as part of
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the if was to encourage the government
to participate in an inclusive regional
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magnet of dialogue to end the political
crisis that has hit the country for two
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years now can if. They can an ambassador
to Burundi and also part of the
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facilitation team saying that the brawny
government should lift in the areas to
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warrant to some opposition
leaders who are not violent. So
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what's it so they said all school
to cut. And those who were
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just. What. Those.
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So what if the. This so that at first
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they could could burn the government say
that thirty four people including the
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twenty fifth in a coup plotters
are under arrest warrants and
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a sort of first just. According to the
United Nations Security Council resolution
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twelve thousand two hundred seventy nine
on one violence to call does should be
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included in the dialogue Braun
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a minister of justice Laurent in Kenya says
that those under arrest warrants should
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first justice we have seen how peace
or action movement have been had we
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have seen how. The cool
with that in the people who
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know
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a crime scene was when I don't
flag I think it will be kind
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of irresponsibility if the tradition
several says he didn't think
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the original made it
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a dialogue team under the facilitation of
the former doesn't and present them in
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the car power had earlier this
year made consultations with
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a civil society organizations women youth
I'm really just groups in the country to
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solicit their opinions on the proposal
regarding the peaceful resolution of the
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crisis. Bronte opposition leader and the
deputy speaker of the parliament that's
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Horace said that the Brandon problems should
be solved by Braun Yes I dunno want to
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should be excluded how can we pretended
that we can make peace while we still do to
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people just because of the political
belonging or freaking. Something which is.
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Even. If some had to go. Why should
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they kill to get their genes which
would be his fighting spirit. As the
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country given the relative stability since
last winter that tox have been frequent
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in the country for the last two moms living
more than fifteen people getting killed
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in the time. The next round of regional
minded and download is expected to resume
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next miles in
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a force to restore peace and stability in
the country he mothers have had in mind
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V.O.A.
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Africa William. Chris Wednesday August twenty
third when you're listening to daybreak
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Africa and the Voice of America I'm James
Butty in Washington they broke Africa
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time is coming up at sixteen minutes past
the hour an opposition leader says at
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least ten people were killed
and dozens more injured when
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a trash dump site on the outskirts of
Guinea's capital cannot agree collapsed on
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Tuesday after nearly two
days of heavy rain C.D.F.
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To really form
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a guinea and prime minister and leader of
the union of Republican forces political
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party says the tragedy is one that was
waiting to happen he says the government
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could have prevented it by setting up trash
dump sites outside the capital but he
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also says the tragedy is the result of
poverty is marked run by people I think
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today more than ten people who
died from what I can cause
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a crash like landslide this place is
the place that they used to live for
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the whole city it in more than forty years
you know so we have absolutely mounted
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you know trash so some people are
living just sides and we have.
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Islands running in. How close is this
site to the capital city is absolutely
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inside the capital he. Never caught in
the capital city I know this program
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because of thunderstorms when I was prime
minister going to years ago but didn't
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continue to do it and today is
a real progress city and it's
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a real social program because it's evil
poverty and really people died in very
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bad condition or. So whose responsibility
is that to move the trash I mean do they
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collected trash in the city and piling up
there or want what act of Atrocitus it is
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some of it of the governor Governor in
Guinea somebody nominated that government is
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not the elected person can we expect that
they're going to be more Patel It is now
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we have many people who
was in hospital for
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a couple months before
that and you know is
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a song think very difficult so today
everybody is saying that to have no
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disposition for progress I think that
really can be the bad opportunity but
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fortunately to find
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a way to get out of the situation of this
all trash I think in the city absolutely
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in connect the city yes I think took them
into. New I SEE YOU ARE A leads them
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between the opposition and the current
government what can I use to say that the
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opposition can tell the government no
I did it today during my visit to the
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place to hold
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a regular station and tell you that we have
to change that if you will work on this
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question and we have to put on
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a new solution because this is something
we cannot accept because this could be
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a problem in other African countries
here in the United States trash that is
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collected is sent out outside of the city
where they have landfills and they keep
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covering the trash up eventually people
can't even build houses litter so I think
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maybe taking the trash away from the city
because it's going to help also with
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their diseases in
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a city like when I create This is the
only situation you have to take it out
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recently that you know I was in my creek
very long is on thirty six kilometers but
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there is no other way to put it out of the
city and country life is not possible
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doing what you are saying about three
hundred six and these absolutely something
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very well. Seedier to raise a
formal guinea a prime minister
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a leader of the opposition union of
Republican forces political party we're
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speaking with me from and the capital can
agree the well Health Organization is
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warning of additional disease risks after
the must lie that killed about five
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hundred people last week in Syria looms
capital Freetown officials of as one of the
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risk of color are malaria and other
infectious diseases emergency preparedness
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officer Dr Robert most Souci spoke to Ricky
strike about the old efforts to prevent
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any possible outbreak. In a
country where we have had
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a neighbor outbreak. In
The Back then we have had
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a big outbreak previously fell about
twelve in which we had over nine hundred
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five around cases and over about two
hundred and seventy four dead one outbreak
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that was a B. Clear out there
then adding to that we have had
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a mob. That killed so many
people so in the wake of that we
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anticipated that the speech of India's
outbreak happening and from absolute.
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Tracking reporting from
the front seat he's like
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a commie cheese or the case is open to ideas
especially diseases that that came to
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be amplified we have scientists from
France the cheese for you have not had any
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cases of cholera. Yet correct no we have
not had any care service and we are going
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to want others to assure I
thought that the W.H.O.
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Is working with partners to provide
psychological and to those coping with trauma
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How important is this and I specially in
the nature of this event where it seems
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that people lost many members of their
family at once if that is true so what
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happened really because I was among
the first people to reach the site of
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a disaster on
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a Monday morning and I magine so many
people who have seen the sandals with their
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talent. I feel as if I am I faked it but
how about of those who have for me is that
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they have lost their power both of those
were of us or the property and the house
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of
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a somehow that they have lost everything
that the owing the lace. That is going on
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and the bad thing with the psychological
trauma something that is immediate on said
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something that does not before
immediate. So. The impacts of
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a magistrate. Close to five hundred
people died there are so many from E.D.S.
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That that are affected in one way or
another. Or loss of property or loss of
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income or Also funnyman bad how bad
was the sanitation in the area
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already before the mud fight so over the
course there was no free town has unique
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reasons why they have limited access to
clean or to one because over to progress
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the area is
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a. Must over the water sources that in
the meaning people have to walk long
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distances to get water that is
one aspect and when they get
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the quality of eats. Even
before this incident is
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a cost. That was Dr Robert Mitchell key
the well Health Organization's emergency
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preparedness officer he was speaking to
reconstruct from Freetown the UN to advance
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fund reports an alarming increase in the
use of so-called human bombs by Boko Haram
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insurgency in north east one theory Lisa
Sharon reports for the US from Geneva. The
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U.N. Children's Fund reports
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a four fold increase over all of last
year in the number of children especially
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girls being used as so-called human bombs
by Boko Haram militants in northeast
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Nigeria UNICEF spokeswoman Marie ksi Makoto
says eighty three children were forced
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to go on suicide missions she says fifty
five of the children were girls under the
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age of fifteen twenty seven were boys and
one was an infant strapped to her girl
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she says the consequences for all children
are terrible because of their role as
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human bombs She tells V.O.A.
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Children are widely viewed with suspicion
there's an extraordinary level of tension
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obviously in these communities and people
are afraid of children who have been.
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Victimized in this absolutely appalling
way there are instances of children being
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ostracized by their communities and worse
so yes like terrible things are happening
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to children after already horrific things
have happened to them UNICEF calls the
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use of children as human bombs and atrocity
and says they are above all victims and
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not perpetrators it says rejecting children
who have been released by Boko Haram or
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have escaped simply compounds their suffering
the agency notes most of the attacks
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are on so-called soft targets such as markets
schools universities and displacement
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camps and most take place in Borno
State Lisa shrine for V.O.A.
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News Geneva. Hundreds of South Sudanese
children separated from their parents while
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fled fighting in South Sudan last year say
they have yet to be reunited with their
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loved ones and majority of company
children either live along or with younger
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siblings in Uganda refugee camps with
little or no support from nonprofit
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organizations Simon Peter
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a pickle has the story from money in northern
Uganda when fighting erupted in Juba
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a year ago last July between government
soldiers and troops loyal to former first
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vice president of mature violence quickly
spread to him at home states buggery
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County sixteen year old Sakina
Christian who was living with
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a sixteen year old stepsister in an eighteen
year old brother in Europe is really
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sick in
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a siblings escaped from their village but
their mother remained in the military on
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because she was running
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a business Sakina says she's been looking
after her siblings at the Our Gaza
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refugee settlement in
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a Germany district ever since they arrived
in Uganda last here my father there and
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those then five claimed my have mana pools
that only normally see if you can hear
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sixteen year old Irene phoning sees she
parted ways with her mother in the
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confusion and chaos that followed the arrival
of governments all use that burglary
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in July twenty sixth team Irene ses she
has been on own at the border kept in
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northern Uganda for more than a year.
Save the Children and they look through
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a new world for the rich and are trying to
help hundreds of unaccompanied children
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like
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a really insecure by constructing small
houses and enrolling the refugee children
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in school Sakina her stepsister her brother
and Irene attend their cause of primary
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school and next of kin and I really
want to be with their siblings unit in
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a sister or lucky woman in the camp or
sympathize with the children and write to
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their. To stay with her family secure and
safe the food rations the receiver not
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enough to last
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a terror month so they must find other
means to buy food and school materials we
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share
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a chapel and we pay I suppose. A money
says she must also work her to earn some
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money because her scholarship
covers only to Asian and
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a little food been the school fees they
feed the fee and then they bought what is
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in the uniform that is what they're given
for the but blows the will spend on it
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giving it up for Grace is
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a forced appearance at the camp grief see
she adopted three children aged eleven
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nine and seven whom she from wondering
around the settlement they way they said
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they had them and their money their money
and then I decided to add the other one
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day the endo on ways the offender if they
Deford as I did they don't move in the
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five days and I because the this is they
were as they would have thought they did
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just that in making that doing the follow
the absinthe ad that people in India came
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00:27:44
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this is via ways international edition I'm
00:29:35
Lori London in Washington
coming up President Trump holds
00:29:38
a campaign rally in Arizona and again goes
after the media truly designers people
00:29:45
in the media and the fake media they make
up stories they have no sources in many
00:29:50
cases can American really have diplomacy
without enough diplomats What if there
00:29:57
is
00:29:58
a problem in New Orleans where Germany you
don't have an ambassador there the AIDS
00:30:03
epidemic where things stand in the U.S.
00:30:06
Also ahead America loses
00:30:08
a beloved legend of comedy its all in today's
international edition Well protesters
00:30:14
engaged in minor scuffles and shouting
matches with Donald Trump supporters Tuesday
00:30:18
as hundreds of people
lined up to get inside
00:30:20
a rally that marks his first political event
since the violence in Charlottesville
00:30:25
Virginia now Phoenix Arizona leaders were
on high alert in the aftermath of the
00:30:30
deadly protests in the president's
comments last week about both sides having
00:30:34
blamed for violence at the White Supremacist
rally Mayor Greg Stanton called on the
00:30:39
president not to hold the rally so soon
after the trouble in Charlottesville but
00:30:44
the rally went on as
00:30:46
a defiant President Trump went after the
media saying he clearly denounced racism
00:30:52
on multiple occasions in the media and
the fake media they make up stories they
00:30:57
have no sources in many cases they say A
source says there is no such thing but
00:31:03
they don't report the facts just
like they don't want to report.
00:31:10
That I spoke out forcefully against
hatred bigotry and violence and strongly
00:31:15
condemn video the white
supremacist and the K.K.K.
00:31:20
. The rally follows a speech should
Monday. The night before U.S.
00:31:26
Troops. And the way forward in Afghanistan
and joining me now to talk more about
00:31:32
that speech on Monday on
the longest war in U.S.
00:31:36
History and the president's new strategy
is Will Fisher director of government
00:31:41
relations with the nonprofit organization
00:31:43
a Vote Vets the largest progressive
veterans organization in the U.S.
00:31:47
With over five hundred thousand members
Well what did you make of President Trump
00:31:52
speech on Afghanistan he called good Donald
Trump gave on Afghanistan was classic
00:31:58
Donald Trump It was
00:32:00
a warm substance. And couldn't properly
for bring I want to be crystal clear the
00:32:06
purpose of the speech was not who discuss
00:32:10
a way forward in Afghanistan the purpose
or my speech was Donald being sort of
00:32:15
described grading. Warning to flip
the script as any reality T.V.
00:32:20
Still or would Donald Trump numbers are in
00:32:23
a complete freefall and they
have been safely in the wake of
00:32:27
a quick ating not be an on the white
supremacist you know what did he do called
00:32:33
together you know the game. The
game of the defense it can't be
00:32:40
a big call by President back early from an
overseas trip and said is great we need
00:32:47
a plot a plot twist for
00:32:49
a major character that would be speak
with all about last night could distract
00:32:53
attention away from the fact that Donald
Trump has proven himself to be at best
00:32:59
a Nazi sympathizer but your group is
under the impression that this was all
00:33:03
something merely to change the
conversation but why are you drawing
00:33:08
a conclusion is Afghanistan not
00:33:10
a top priority at this moment in time it
is that Donald Trump plan if it can be
00:33:14
called such
00:33:15
a thing was no real substance and
of no little caring Donald Trump
00:33:22
could have saved us all and you will not.
If he would have simply gone on to his
00:33:27
favorite mode of communication and posted
00:33:30
a photo of him taking care of him down the
road and said very Look it's mine the
00:33:35
policy on Afghanistan there is not
00:33:38
a military solution to Afghanistan
the solution to have been found
00:33:45
in political democratic efforts
00:33:48
a diplomatic effort Donald Trump saying
that he's going to send more troops into
00:33:55
Afghanistan he didn't say he was sending
in more troops he said he wasn't going to
00:33:58
tell us what he was going to do with regard
to. That excuse some of his actions as
00:34:04
it relates to diplomatic efforts and
funding at the State Department those are
00:34:09
certainly going to be gone by
the wayside under the under
00:34:11
a truck to the station I think when
you hear him talk about. To quote
00:34:18
unquote win with our military here suggesting
that we're going to send more troops
00:34:25
now what I do not understand is how
he could think that after sixteen
00:34:32
years of war you would think even the
most neophyte of leaders would see that
00:34:38
simply sending more troops into
Afghanistan with no real plan is not
00:34:43
a strategy for success you mentioned the
motive being potentially to distract from
00:34:50
all the talk about racism and the criticism
that the president has been receiving
00:34:55
Do you think that that's just traction
worked you know I mean look I couldn't help
00:34:59
but wonder why it's like sort of who was
going to be the first person who is Donald
00:35:04
Trump managed to string
00:35:05
a couple of sentences together was subject
verb agreement would go on television
00:35:09
and talk about how Tonight Donald Trump
became president or how presidential he was
00:35:14
we are not going to let Donald Trump
take attention away from this he has
00:35:19
equivocated with see whether David
white supremacist. And we talk about.
00:35:26
This is somebody who you never
know where he's going to come down
00:35:30
a few months ago according to
your video I've got instead was
00:35:34
a hotbed of terror but it required
00:35:36
a. Lab in Afghanistan which is one of the
largest piece of artillery in our arsenal
00:35:42
in
00:35:42
a few weeks ago he is not even sure that we
should be there at all. That is going to
00:35:48
write
00:35:48
a blank check for combat operations in
Afghanistan with no land in sight this is
00:35:54
also someone who speaks a labor
market bleat. About It's
00:35:58
a war with North Korea goes out like
spin art when it comes to foreign policy
00:36:05
whether it's all they do they know as well
or or so morning so for there is really
00:36:12
nothing that shines brighter being barky
Donald Trump's capriciousness more.
00:36:19
Closely as it relates to international
affairs well Fisher director of government
00:36:23
relations with the nonprofit progressive
organization Vote Vets thanks for being
00:36:27
with us on the heels of President from
speech on Afghanistan and talk of diplomacy
00:36:34
as one big part of that strategy there
are questions about how to go about that
00:36:39
there and in other places in the world that
are fragile at the moment as dozens of
00:36:44
positions at the State Department remain
unfilled or have been eliminated Joining
00:36:49
me now for more is former
diplomat and former former U.S.
00:36:54
Ambassador and current president of the
East West Institute Cameron Munter thanks
00:36:58
for being with us or so do you think the
State Department is being dismantled to
00:37:02
some degree it does
seem that way there are
00:37:06
a number of slots for under-secretaries
which have not been channeled there are
00:37:10
a number of fronts which of the assistant
secretaries the people who won the
00:37:13
so-called regional bureaus these are the
people who really make policy these are
00:37:17
the close advisors to the secretary and
normal State Department and what's puzzling
00:37:22
to people like me who look you know
whether. Not There's been Democrats or
00:37:25
Republicans these people are the people
trained in diplomacy especially the career
00:37:30
people but also the pull of political
people who come in they're trained in
00:37:33
a mechanism which is part of the worldwide
mechanism which allows countries to deal
00:37:38
with one another on things from climate
change to nonproliferation to bilateral
00:37:42
issues to political alliances and so the
feeling that one gets and I'm as puzzled
00:37:48
by this as anyone else is that the leadership
of the government that it's the Bush
00:37:53
White House and perhaps even Mr Tillerson
seem to think that changing the way not
00:37:58
changing the policy but changing the way
policy is made is something that's very
00:38:02
necessary and that they would appoint
people until those changes the structural
00:38:06
changes are made the difficulty here is
that there seems to be an assumption that
00:38:11
what diplomats do what they're trained to
do and how they do it is somehow not as
00:38:17
important as having different ideas and
again the analogy that I struggle to find
00:38:22
is you know would you want
someone who is who doesn't have
00:38:25
a driver's license to turn or I'm trying
to say that the people who might come in
00:38:29
would be inept It's just that
their various skills that
00:38:32
a diplomat has Do you think sort of
00:38:34
a control thing that this administration
just doesn't not want anyone from any past
00:38:39
administration this whole
loyalty thing we've heard
00:38:41
a lot from this White House do you think
that that could have something to do with
00:38:45
it and does loyalty even play
00:38:47
a role in this type of situation this to
me is beyond loyalty every group that has
00:38:53
come in famously Republicans turning over
to Democrats rather Democrats turning
00:38:57
over to Republicans initially they look
at the State Department and say These
00:39:00
people worked for my predecessor I just
ran against my predecessor and then they
00:39:04
quickly realize that when
you're trained to be
00:39:06
a diplomat you're serving the country and
you've oily and very carefully and very
00:39:10
honestly serve the person who is your boss
that's your constitutional job and very
00:39:15
quickly everyone I've worked with and I
worked in the Clinton White House and went
00:39:19
on to work in the Bush White House they
quickly realize that they have very
00:39:23
valuable people. We're going to give
them honest straightforward vice there's
00:39:27
another element to this which is not just
00:39:29
a domestic element the way in which our
country talks to third countries let's say
00:39:33
there's an issue about missiles in North
Korea or the war in Syria who talks to the
00:39:39
German foreign ministry it's the American
diplomats talking to the Russian foreign
00:39:44
ministry who talks to the Chinese
now the words it's not just
00:39:47
a question of addressing
00:39:48
a problem it's lateral communication around
the world is carried out by diplomats
00:39:52
and if you don't have the people who are
trained to do that you can miss signals
00:39:56
you can fail to inform people and you very
hard to convince other people to work
00:40:00
with you if you haven't worked very hard
at developing trust with foreigners and
00:40:05
that they understand what you say it's
00:40:06
a question that makes people like me scratch
my head about how does one propose in
00:40:11
this administration to work with other
countries if the people who speak the
00:40:15
foreign languages know the people in
foreign countries are not there to pass on
00:40:19
those messages besides the fact that
we've got about thirty percent unfilled
00:40:23
ambassadorships right now there's also
that push to eliminate some twenty three
00:40:27
hundred jobs from the State Department
budget how concerned are you about what is
00:40:33
happening at the State Department what would
appear to be it's being gutted to some
00:40:37
degree let's just try to look specifically
at what happens when you don't have
00:40:40
people in these jobs there are many people
at the State Department who are open
00:40:44
minded enough to say there are structural
changes that could be made at state that
00:40:48
might be done official For example many
career people have said many career
00:40:52
diplomats have said we have too many special
envoys and maybe a special envoy for X.
00:40:57
Or the special envoy for that doesn't
need to be named it can be for that that
00:41:00
function can people get back into the
bureaus find I don't think everyone is
00:41:04
against any change but the two things about
what you've said that I think are very
00:41:09
important our ambassador real posts that
are left vacant give an impression to the
00:41:13
country where they're big and that that
country doesn't matter you know you can one
00:41:17
can argue that in the modern age you know
ambassadors are old fashioned and we have
00:41:21
modern communications but most countries
take the. American ambassador very
00:41:25
seriously and if you don't have an ambassador
that is noticed by that country and
00:41:30
then there's not only the symbolism but
then secondly there's the actual role what
00:41:34
if there is
00:41:35
a problem in an important NATO ally like
Germany and you don't have an ambassador
00:41:40
there or. China what is the
mechanism by which you make sure
00:41:47
that the leader of that country that you
know that we're really getting our message
00:41:52
across and it's not going to be
misunderstood but if there's not a center
00:41:56
a place where the policies are discussed
and debated and communicated what happens
00:42:02
is it becomes
00:42:02
a very good for use world within which
many people don't know which ideas are
00:42:08
authoritative or not and when you don't
know what ideas are authoritative it simply
00:42:12
becomes confusing and I
wouldn't want to think that in
00:42:16
a situation where you have tensions like
we do at the present with Russia or
00:42:20
tensions over North Korea I
would really not want just
00:42:24
a barrage of different opinions out there
I would like to think that people can say
00:42:28
well at least the authoritative version
from the State Department is this and it's
00:42:32
hard in some cases to find out when you
haven't filled staffed and trusted the
00:42:38
right department former ambassador and
current president of the East West Institute
00:42:42
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Will approximately a
million people in the U.S.
00:43:26
Are living with HIV and one in seven of
them don't even know it but the number of
00:43:31
infections has been on the decline as
activists now worry that progress could be
00:43:35
reversed if government spending to programs
they've benefited from go away head of
00:43:41
a large U.S.
00:43:42
Conference on AIDS in September we're joined
by Marie Panner executive director of
00:43:46
the National Alliance of state and territorial
AIDS directors thanks for being with
00:43:50
us so what is the state
of AIDS today in the U.S.
00:43:54
Central progress has really been made over
the last thirty years in responding to
00:44:00
the epidemic and you can really now for the
first time probably ever talk about the
00:44:06
end of
00:44:06
a we have all the tools that are necessary
or nearly all the tools that are necessarily
00:44:13
We certainly have the knowledge and the
understanding about what it takes to end
00:44:18
the epidemic and what we really need now
is the political will in order to do so
00:44:25
it's going to take resources clearly knowing
that we could reach and it really is
00:44:30
a matter of result to figure out if we can
get there what will it take to get there
00:44:35
early one of the most important things
related to ending the epidemic would be
00:44:41
reducing new infections we have biomedical
interventions that clearly. We reduce
00:44:46
new infections including treatment of
HIV And what we are what we now know
00:44:53
through various studies is that if individuals
can achieve and undetectible viral
00:44:58
load to where they have virus in their
body but that virus is not active we can
00:45:05
clearly demonstrate that there are no
infections that result the second piece is
00:45:10
for people who are HIV negative there
is an intervention called pre-exposure
00:45:15
prophylactic or prep and that is all about
preventing new infections by also taking
00:45:22
anti-retroviral medication
just like somebody who's
00:45:25
a positive takes medication individual who
is negative if they take the currently
00:45:30
approved medication for Perhaps it is
really a very low chance of becoming
00:45:36
a HIV positive as a result of the
exposure I understand that there's
00:45:41
a big meeting coming up with the AIDS
advocates and the Presidential Advisory
00:45:46
Council I know that this past number of
those advisers resigned from that council
00:45:52
in protest they accuse the president
of not caring enough about H.I.V.
00:45:56
Issues and this would be I am assuming the
first time the council has met since the
00:46:00
resignations What do you expect from this
they are meeting August thirtieth here in
00:46:04
Washington D.C.
00:46:06
I expect that the council will continue
the result forward recommending to the
00:46:11
president that we continue the focus on
working towards the end of the epidemic I
00:46:17
think that one of the clear important
messages is that we still have
00:46:22
a lot of work to do we still have some
huge disparities in terms of who accesses
00:46:26
health care and who can achieve undetectible
viral load status for instance and so
00:46:32
I think the result is that we
really need ongoing support we need
00:46:38
resources for that we need
00:46:40
a concerted effort towards achieving the
national goals that have been. In place
00:46:46
and I think you know I think that the
council will stay resolved in that in that
00:46:51
effort moving forward
there's also a meeting
00:46:55
a real important meeting coming up in
September many many advocates coming together
00:47:00
it's the U.S. Conference on AIDS
and I expect that that will be
00:47:04
a similar push what we really need to
see from an appropriation standpoint is
00:47:08
Congress continuing to maintain their
appropriations for funding the Ryan White
00:47:15
program other necessary services and we are
pleased that Congress continues to move
00:47:21
in that direction with the new fiscal
year about to begin in another two months
00:47:26
Congress will need to pass some spending
bills continue to and can to continue
00:47:31
funding important programs that would
benefit people living with HIV AIDS How
00:47:35
concerned are you that there could be
spending cuts that could be harmful to the
00:47:40
progress that's been made very concerned
in the president's budget propose some
00:47:44
very significant cuts to programs that
provide important benefits to people living
00:47:48
with clothing. The National
Institutes of Health C.D.C.
00:47:53
The secretary's Minority AIDS initiative
in the Ryan White program and if we were
00:47:59
to see those funding cuts implemented
it really would devastate the entire
00:48:04
infrastructure that's been built and put
in place over much of the last thirty to
00:48:09
thirty five years and so as Congress
continues their work as you as you mentioned
00:48:14
towards the funding for fiscal year eighteen
we really need to see funding levels
00:48:20
maintained and actually some of the cuts
were actually it put in place in two
00:48:25
thousand and seventeen restored part C.
00:48:28
And why did HIV AIDS program had
a cut and the C.D.C.'s S.T.D.
00:48:33
Prevention program which is very closely
related to HIV programming those cuts need
00:48:38
to be restored we have been hearing much
lately about the Affordable Care Act It
00:48:42
seems for now it's staying in place
although there has been. Of the president
00:48:47
cutting funding for it which
would probably create quite
00:48:50
a few problems how would this impact
benefits people receive for HIV AIDS the
00:48:55
health care coverage is critical for people
living with HIV It really is time for
00:49:01
us to come to some kind of
00:49:02
a bipartisan solution that protect and
improve the health care of all Americans
00:49:08
including those living with HIV The we
can't keep playing politics with people's
00:49:12
lives all right that's Marie Panner executive
director of the National Alliance of
00:49:17
state and territorial AIDS directors thanks
for being with us this is international
00:49:21
edition on V.O.A.
00:49:23
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00:49:36
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00:49:55
world's worst smelling scratch that checking
out what's trending on social media
00:50:01
we're joined by VIA way Zander pound to
ask you Hey Andrew what's happening Well
00:50:05
a couple days after the big
solar eclipse here in the U.S.
00:50:07
It is still the talk of social media
and people are talking about what
00:50:12
a big reaction it got on social media to
Facebook sixty six million people talking
00:50:18
about the eclipse while it was going on
that created two hundred forty million
00:50:22
interactions more than three hundred sixty
five million video views on Facebook so
00:50:29
big stuff lots of people talking about
this on Facebook Twitter as well more than
00:50:33
six million tweets during the eclipse so
lots of conversation going on but not
00:50:40
everyone who has had their face and digital
media case in point Netflix posted on
00:50:45
their social media accounts
yeah they actually had
00:50:47
a ten percent drop in video plays the hours
of the eclipse which is pretty big news
00:50:53
because A it flicks doesn't like to reveal
00:50:55
a lot of information as ratings particularly
when they're not being watched with
00:50:58
them exactly and B.
00:51:00
The fact they're not being watched they're
publicizing that is pretty bizarre but
00:51:04
it just speaks to how many people are down
their phones took their eyes away from
00:51:08
the television screen and actually looked
up at the sky to see this AM as I say it
00:51:12
just with all the news and the tension
in the country right now I think it was
00:51:17
a really beautiful
distraction and also sort of
00:51:20
a way to step out of the day to day things
that we stress over and realize just.
00:51:26
You know the miracle of this planet and
the universe somehow all of it is so
00:51:32
insignificant comparative comparatively
Yeah that's the sentiment we saw in in
00:51:37
about one hundred forty characters
or so when Twitter but read out
00:51:40
a lot of people and saying that exact thing
yeah that it was nice to look around
00:51:44
and see everybody gathered outside looking
up at the sky they said it was actually
00:51:49
one person I saw said it was the polar
opposite of what was going on in
00:51:52
Charlottesville last week where
you had the protest there and
00:51:55
a lot of division and he added this with
the eclipse was everybody coming together
00:52:00
and unified looking up at
the sun so it was actually
00:52:03
a pretty cool thing in social media certainly
reflected that and it was free and it
00:52:07
was free even better absolutely So anything
else folks are talking about right now
00:52:13
yeah this is an interesting
story out of the U.S.
00:52:15
State of New Hampshire we talk about
00:52:18
a lot of the bad stuff that goes
on in social media so when there's
00:52:21
a good story I always like
to highlight it and this is
00:52:23
a good story so woman in New Hampshire was
in her swimming pool in her backyard and
00:52:27
she tried to get out and the ladder for the
swimming pool broke so she was stuck in
00:52:32
her swimming pool and she was unable to
pull herself out so what does she do very
00:52:37
quickly and very smartly thinks of trying
to grab at her i Pad which is on the lawn
00:52:43
chair right near the pool so she has
00:52:44
a stick there she kind of shimmies the
chair over gets the i Pad and she puts up
00:52:49
a post on
00:52:50
a Facebook group for her community saying
Hey I'm stuck in my pool can somebody
00:52:54
help me out and within minutes somebody
saw that they were able to come over and
00:52:59
help her out of her pool so it was
00:53:01
a really great use of social media and
crowdsourcing to help this woman out and I
00:53:07
don't want to think about what would have
happened if she'd gotten stuck in that
00:53:09
pool and couldn't get out but the fact that
she was able to use digital media to do
00:53:13
so was pretty neat story and shows that
despite all the bad stuff that happens on
00:53:18
social media sometimes there are these good
stories where it's put to good use All
00:53:22
right Andrew we appreciate it you
can follow him on Twitter at
00:53:25
a path. Well and turning now to what's
happening in Hollywood we're joined by rare
00:53:29
dot us content editor Nicole Michel of
Hamish Nicole why don't we lost an American
00:53:34
comedy legend this week yes it was
00:53:37
a pretty hard at last on Sunday
will America last year ilu is
00:53:41
a comedian and actor who's been
in a lot of people's lives over
00:53:46
a decades long career he died in his
last Vegas home at the age of ninety one
00:53:52
surrounded by his family and on Tuesday an
official cause of death was released by
00:53:59
the know about a coroner's
office he died of a steamy
00:54:03
a cardio myopically which is essentially
the narrowing of blood vessels around the
00:54:09
heart which causes the heart to not be
able to pump blood in the body anymore an
00:54:14
official autopsy will not be performed
on Jerry Lewis as he was under
00:54:19
a doctor's care apparently this condition
comes from coronary artery disease but he
00:54:25
is remembered by many of his colleagues
in Hollywood Celine Dion Ellen generous
00:54:32
Jim Carrey Well yeah I'm Shatner and Patton
also all or all quick to take to social
00:54:38
media to share their condolences
and I'm sure this is a loss that
00:54:41
a lot of people are going to feel at this
time for sure for sure he really had
00:54:46
a huge impact on so many people and so
many levels of course with his generosity
00:54:51
with non-profits and children and and
his and his hilarity. And you've got an
00:54:58
update on the hot and heavy romance with
Jennifer Lopez an baseball star Alex
00:55:05
Rodriguez what's the deal they are
continuing to keep things by he they were
00:55:11
spotted at Alex's new gym that he just
opened up in Miami Florida and they did
00:55:17
a little bit of work
00:55:19
a couple workout together I guess you
could say that those is what they gather
00:55:24
stayed together they did
a little bit of bar. J.
00:55:27
Lo is uber And here now that she's gotten
her little did go on to the blue her
00:55:33
television series here and
afterward they enjoyed a dinner at
00:55:38
a local Miami restaurant with
00:55:41
a rod daughter Natasha and Ella So things
are looking pretty good between the two
00:55:46
of them and definitely the world and romance
and they make one good looking couple
00:55:50
they sure do for sure can't argue with
that all right Nicole thank you so much
00:55:55
thank you for having me. Even
listening to international
00:56:02
edition that does it for today but find
us any time at News dot com Thanks for
00:56:07
joining us and thanks to our director Tracy
Carter and our engineer General Smith
00:56:12
I'm Lori London Washington have
00:56:14
a wonderful day. Next
00:56:28
an editorial reflecting the views of the
United States government the governments
00:56:32
of France the United Kingdom and the United
States welcome the recent announcement
00:56:36
by the Libyan National Army or Alan way
that it will investigate reports of
00:56:41
unlawful killings in Benghazi the Elena
has recognized the arrest warrant by the
00:56:47
International Criminal Court
prosecutor for a member of the Allen
00:56:50
a major Mahmud was stuff of blue safe
folly and has suspended him pending an
00:56:56
investigation the United
States calls on the Allen
00:56:59
a to ensure that the investigation is
carried out fully and fairly and those
00:57:04
responsible for the unlawful killings
are held to account our folly
00:57:09
a senior Libyan military commander stands
accused by the international criminal
00:57:14
tribunal judges of personally shooting or
ordering the execution of thirty three
00:57:19
people who were either civilians or injured
fighters in at least seven incidents in
00:57:24
two thousand and sixteen. And two thousand
and seventeen major our folly is loyal
00:57:30
to strongman Khalifa Haftar are
00:57:32
a former general under longtime dictator
Moammar Gadhafi after heads the most
00:57:38
powerful military in Libya and his forces
recently managed to retake Benghazi after
00:57:43
a three year campaign against
other militant groups the U.S.
00:57:48
Is monitoring ongoing acts of conflict
in Libya closely those suspected of
00:57:52
committing ordering are failing to prevent
unlawful killings and torture on all
00:57:57
sides must be fully investigated
and held accountable the U.S.
00:58:01
And its allies will continue efforts
at the international level to pursue
00:58:05
appropriate action against those who are
complicit in violations of international
00:58:10
human rights law or international humanitarian
law whatever their affiliation it is
00:58:16
in Libya's interests to be able to rely on
unified security forces responsible for
00:58:21
the country's security and acting within
the framework of Libya's laws and
00:58:26
respecting international law the governments
of France the United Kingdom and the
00:58:31
United States also reaffirm their support
for the government of national accord we
00:58:36
underscore the importance of the United
Nations central role in facilitating Libyan
00:58:40
led political dialogue welcome the appointment
of the new special representative of
00:58:45
the secretary general guests and salomé and
look forward to supporting his efforts
00:58:50
to facilitate
00:58:51
a political solution in Libya. Was an
editorial reflecting the views of the United
00:58:58
States government.
00:59:25
This is LARRY London with of the
world's biggest hits after this may be
00:59:30
a way. Below I'm Steve Miller
00:59:37
U.S.
00:59:37
President Donald Trump on Tuesday lambasted
the Senate for not passing health care
00:59:42
overhaul during
00:59:43
a Phoenix Arizona rally Tuesday evening
Trump bemoan the fact that the Senate was
00:59:48
only one vote away from passing
00:59:50
a health care overhaul we have to get rid
of the filibuster rule right now we need
00:59:56
sixty votes and we have fifty two Republicans
that means that eight Democrats are
01:00:03
controlling all of this legislation we
have over two hundred bells Republican
01:00:08
Senator John McCain who is undergoing
treatment for an aggressive form of brain
01:00:12
cancer voted against a Republican
health care bill outside
01:00:17
a day of noisy but largely peaceful protest
turned unruly as police fired pepper
01:00:22
spray at crowds after someone apparently
LA Brock's and bottles and officers
01:00:27
a power for typhoon barreled into Hong
Kong on Wednesday. The stone force offices
01:00:34
and schools are closed the left flooded
streets shot of the windows and canceled
01:00:39
hundreds of flights typhoon Hedo came
within sixty kilometers of home Kong close
01:00:44
enough to be considered a direct hit under
Hong Kong storm warning system weather.
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Ahead of Trump's arrival there
was speculation he may announce
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a pardon for Joe Arpaio the former sheriff
of Maricopa County Arizona and renown
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handler. Hardliner on immigration
policies chop however did give
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a strong indication he may at some time
in the future pardon the eighty five year
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old a par Pio who was recently convicted
of contempt of court for ignoring
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a judicial order to halt his immigration
patrols you know a lot I'll make
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a projection I think is going to be just
fine OK there were chaotic scenes outside
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the venue where they rally was being
held protesters were chanting and what
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appeared to be smoke bombs and fireworks
being set off. Police used tear gas and
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because of grenades to disperse groups
of protesters and some also fired pepper
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spray at crowds after someone apparently
locked rocks about bottles at the officers
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. At least seventy four people were
injured after a train derailed in
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a tar protests in India the second train
accident in the northern Indian state in
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the last three days the cafe at Express
derailed at two forty am local time when
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a truck carrying sand for can structure
instruction overturned in the tracks near
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a area town the train driver was forced
to put on the brakes and the impact cause
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a coaches to fall off the
rails this is V.O.A.
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News three young brothers have been saved
by emergency services after being trapped
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by
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a magnitude four earthquake that struck the
Italian island of Isha Jacob Greaves reports
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a miraculous escape and the making of one
memorable family reunion. The cheese
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coming from fire crews as the last of
three brothers is pulled from the rubble.
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That's the vive hours trapped below after
an earthquake hit the Italian island of
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a Monday night this the eldest of the
siblings far crews found his younger brother
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as the island has a population swells to
around two hundred thousand impacts some
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a month's most of the damage occurred in
the higher areas of the volcanic island
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away from the coast. Helicopters and
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a ferry boats have brought in extra rescue
workers from the mainland the quake hit
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just a few days before
the first anniversary of
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a major earthquake that killed nearly three
hundred people in central Italy most of
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them in the town of I'm
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a trace reporter Jacob graves the donations
children fine reports an alarming
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increase in the use of so-called human bombs
by Boko Haram insurgents in northeast
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Nigeria is
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a shrine has the story the onus of
spokeswoman Marie says eighty three children
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were forced to go on suicide missions She
says the consequences for all children
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are terrible because of their role
as human bombs She tells V.O.A.
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Children are widely viewed with suspicion
people are afraid of children who have
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been victimized in this absolutely appalling
way there are instances of children
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being ostracized by their communities
UNICEF calls the use of children as human
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bombs and atrocity and says they are above
all victims and not perpetrators it says
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rejecting children who have been released
by Boko Haram or have escaped simply
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compounds their suffering
they say shrine for V.O.A.
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News Geneva Panama's president says his
country will begin requiring an entry visa
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for Venezuelans beginning in October as
their homeland slips deeper into crisis
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President Juan color's Barela said that
recent events in Venezuela forced him to
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act to preserve Panama security at Qana
me and job sources North Korea's state.
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Media released new photos on Wednesday
that appear to show the designs of one or
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possibly two new missiles concept diagrams
of the missiles were hanging on the wall
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behind leader Kim Jong Un when he visited
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a plant that makes solid fuel engines for
the country's ballistic missile program
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one of the photos coolly
showed a diagram for
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a missile called the Puca song three
which appears to be the latest in its
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polarised serious in
Washington I'm Steve Miller.
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That's the latest world news from B O A.
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Good Morning America welcome to DAYBREAK
Africa from the Voice of America and James
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but in Washington today is Wednesday August
twenty third and here are some of the
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stories we're covering the main
opposition in the D.R. C.S.S.
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Has to engineer is team to keep President
Joseph Kabila empower. People around that
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. I want. And we've not understand that
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very complete. But did
not want people to all.
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MARTIN For you lose the member of the
main opposition coalition in the R.C.A.
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New as the rest emblem on
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a delegation from the into broody dialogue
has called on the government to release
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political prisoners
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a new report by UNICEF sees an increase
in the use of children as human bombs by
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Boko Haram and it trashed dumpsite
collapses kills ten people in.
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Its place the place right there you could
put the whole city more than forty years
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you know what would happen absolutely I'm.
Crushed So some people are leaving that
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site and we have a. C.D.R.
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To receive from a guinea prime minister
and leader of the Union Republican force
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a political party the World Health Organization
wants of the risk of disease follow
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a serious news deadly mudslide and hundreds
of South Sudanese children are left to
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fend for themselves and Ugandan refugees
those terrorists plus how Listen of the
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day are coming up on DAYBREAK
Africa. Let me opposition in the
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Democratic Republic of
Congo know as the resemble
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a man is accusing leaders of the Southern
African Development Community Sadik of
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engineering as came to keep president just
I've got below. In Powell but Martin for
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you
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a member of the group says the Congolese
people have already spoken that they want
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President Kabila to step down before the
end of this year at their annual summit
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which concluded last Sunday in Pretoria
this arctic leader said it was unrealistic
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to hold elections this year called for in
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a December twenty eighth sixteen agreement
because of security challenges on
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Tuesday the group said it was sent
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a special envoy to deal received to help
ease tension and also called on the
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electoral commission to make public the
revised electoral calendar before use says
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Sadik Hsu have provided help to the
commission to help it implemented twenty
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sixteen accord we totally.
Waived such as state
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to conclude it's summit we are saying
that long one no organization can the
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substitute itself to take over these people
the Congolese people have said that Mr
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Kabila should leave power by the end of
this year this is look negotiate and we can
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not understand that sub Erica Mr Zuma
and his colleagues saying that it's not
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possible to alter elections but why you
did didn't see the electoral commission
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before to see what help they need in
order to organize elections this year
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as mentioned by December thirty
first cause of last year Mr
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Cutler is doing all what he can do to
stop the lies the Congo and then to
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subsidize the all the region
this is August and then
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a week from now is September the sudden is
saying that is not possible that is not
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enough time to hold the elections
they won wherein we signed the call
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we met with the subject people. Last
March in the King Charles sun Why did is
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the do what was in their power to help
elect little commission to help the
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Congolese people to implement the echo why
did you do that they waited and now they
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come to know they can do what they let
their want but what we are saying you need
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to have the power if they have size to
defend mistaken view that they have
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a chance within Yaz to go this is what the
Congolese people want mystify you know
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what do you make of the decision by
Senate that they will be sending the
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a special envoy to your country because
of the tension that is going on will the
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rest compliment be able to meet
with a special envoy we only way is
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a meeting with people from Cedric he would
send someone we meet and we'll tell him
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what do we think the SADIC leaders
also condemned what they call.
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Interference East by countries
outside of the D.R.S.
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See is it
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a real addition on the part of the resemble
of mine that there are countries where
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interfering in the F.A.A. Is the D.N.C.
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I don't know if they really know what
they're saying the international community
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they have the high grade we've come when
these people they have said that we have
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to implement the December twenty
first two thousand and sixteen
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a quote they have an issue this illusion
by the Security Council resolution two
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three four eight I can't understand what
they want as because that the resolution
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is a for all world and I don't
know can come up both the U.N.
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Security Council elections went to be
held this year would you be ready to
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participate we will not
participate. In the next. We want.
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Transparent elections first of all we
want to mistake that villa to release
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a statement saying that the world drop
at the end of this year Secondly we want
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Electoral Commission to issue the
calander Thirdly we want the audit
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of the electoral are the G.'s we then
want to go to the election but we will
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not accept any election that will
not be transparent but the think
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the election or not you lection
disappearance mistaken as to
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Martin for you is
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a member of the main opposition coalition
in the as the recently moment he was
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speaking with me from the capital K.
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. It allegations from the into Broome the
dialogue led by facility turn and from
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a Tanzania President Benjamin cuppa has
ended three days of consultation with
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a broom the government the group called
on the government to release political
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prisoners and council the arrest warrants
for some opposition members to facilitate
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an inclusive dialogue most of the every
man has detailed from Bujumbura former
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president President Benjamin team and the
three days visit in Burundi as part of
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the if was to encourage the government
to participate in an inclusive regional
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magnet of dialogue to end the political
crisis that has hit the country for two
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years now can if. They can an ambassador
to Burundi and also part of the
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facilitation team saying that the brawny
government should lift in the areas to
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warrant to some opposition
leaders who are not violent. So
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what's it so they said all school
to cut. And those who were
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just. What. Those.
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So what if the. This so that at first
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they could could burn the government say
that thirty four people including the
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twenty fifth in a coup plotters
are under arrest warrants and
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a sort of first just. According to the
United Nations Security Council resolution
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twelve thousand two hundred seventy nine
on one violence to call does should be
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included in the dialogue Braun
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a minister of justice Laurent in Kenya says
that those under arrest warrants should
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first justice we have seen how peace
or action movement have been had we
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have seen how. The cool
with that in the people who
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know
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a crime scene was when I don't
flag I think it will be kind
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of irresponsibility if the tradition
several says he didn't think
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the original made it
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a dialogue team under the facilitation of
the former doesn't and present them in
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the car power had earlier this
year made consultations with
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a civil society organizations women youth
I'm really just groups in the country to
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solicit their opinions on the proposal
regarding the peaceful resolution of the
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crisis. Bronte opposition leader and the
deputy speaker of the parliament that's
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Horace said that the Brandon problems should
be solved by Braun Yes I dunno want to
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should be excluded how can we pretended
that we can make peace while we still do to
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people just because of the political
belonging or freaking. Something which is.
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Even. If some had to go. Why should
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they kill to get their genes which
would be his fighting spirit. As the
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country given the relative stability since
last winter that tox have been frequent
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in the country for the last two moms living
more than fifteen people getting killed
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in the time. The next round of regional
minded and download is expected to resume
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next miles in
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a force to restore peace and stability in
the country he mothers have had in mind
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V.O.A.
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Africa William. Chris Wednesday August twenty
third when you're listening to daybreak
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Africa and the Voice of America I'm James
Butty in Washington they broke Africa
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time is coming up at sixteen minutes past
the hour an opposition leader says at
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least ten people were killed
and dozens more injured when
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a trash dump site on the outskirts of
Guinea's capital cannot agree collapsed on
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Tuesday after nearly two
days of heavy rain C.D.F.
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To really form
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a guinea and prime minister and leader of
the union of Republican forces political
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party says the tragedy is one that was
waiting to happen he says the government
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could have prevented it by setting up trash
dump sites outside the capital but he
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also says the tragedy is the result of
poverty is marked run by people I think
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today more than ten people who
died from what I can cause
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a crash like landslide this place is
the place that they used to live for
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the whole city it in more than forty years
you know so we have absolutely mounted
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you know trash so some people are
living just sides and we have.
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Islands running in. How close is this
site to the capital city is absolutely
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inside the capital he. Never caught in
the capital city I know this program
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because of thunderstorms when I was prime
minister going to years ago but didn't
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continue to do it and today is
a real progress city and it's
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a real social program because it's evil
poverty and really people died in very
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bad condition or. So whose responsibility
is that to move the trash I mean do they
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collected trash in the city and piling up
there or want what act of Atrocitus it is
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some of it of the governor Governor in
Guinea somebody nominated that government is
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not the elected person can we expect that
they're going to be more Patel It is now
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we have many people who
was in hospital for
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a couple months before
that and you know is
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a song think very difficult so today
everybody is saying that to have no
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disposition for progress I think that
really can be the bad opportunity but
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fortunately to find
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a way to get out of the situation of this
all trash I think in the city absolutely
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in connect the city yes I think took them
into. New I SEE YOU ARE A leads them
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between the opposition and the current
government what can I use to say that the
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opposition can tell the government no
I did it today during my visit to the
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place to hold
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a regular station and tell you that we have
to change that if you will work on this
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question and we have to put on
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a new solution because this is something
we cannot accept because this could be
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a problem in other African countries
here in the United States trash that is
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collected is sent out outside of the city
where they have landfills and they keep
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covering the trash up eventually people
can't even build houses litter so I think
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maybe taking the trash away from the city
because it's going to help also with
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their diseases in
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a city like when I create This is the
only situation you have to take it out
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recently that you know I was in my creek
very long is on thirty six kilometers but
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there is no other way to put it out of the
city and country life is not possible
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doing what you are saying about three
hundred six and these absolutely something
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very well. Seedier to raise a
formal guinea a prime minister
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a leader of the opposition union of
Republican forces political party we're
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speaking with me from and the capital can
agree the well Health Organization is
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warning of additional disease risks after
the must lie that killed about five
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hundred people last week in Syria looms
capital Freetown officials of as one of the
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risk of color are malaria and other
infectious diseases emergency preparedness
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officer Dr Robert most Souci spoke to Ricky
strike about the old efforts to prevent
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any possible outbreak. In a
country where we have had
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a neighbor outbreak. In
The Back then we have had
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a big outbreak previously fell about
twelve in which we had over nine hundred
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five around cases and over about two
hundred and seventy four dead one outbreak
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that was a B. Clear out there
then adding to that we have had
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a mob. That killed so many
people so in the wake of that we
00:20:00
anticipated that the speech of India's
outbreak happening and from absolute.
00:20:07
Tracking reporting from
the front seat he's like
00:20:10
a commie cheese or the case is open to ideas
especially diseases that that came to
00:20:16
be amplified we have scientists from
France the cheese for you have not had any
00:20:21
cases of cholera. Yet correct no we have
not had any care service and we are going
00:20:27
to want others to assure I
thought that the W.H.O.
00:20:31
Is working with partners to provide
psychological and to those coping with trauma
00:20:36
How important is this and I specially in
the nature of this event where it seems
00:20:41
that people lost many members of their
family at once if that is true so what
00:20:47
happened really because I was among
the first people to reach the site of
00:20:51
a disaster on
00:20:53
a Monday morning and I magine so many
people who have seen the sandals with their
00:20:59
talent. I feel as if I am I faked it but
how about of those who have for me is that
00:21:06
they have lost their power both of those
were of us or the property and the house
00:21:11
of
00:21:11
a somehow that they have lost everything
that the owing the lace. That is going on
00:21:17
and the bad thing with the psychological
trauma something that is immediate on said
00:21:23
something that does not before
immediate. So. The impacts of
00:21:30
a magistrate. Close to five hundred
people died there are so many from E.D.S.
00:21:36
That that are affected in one way or
another. Or loss of property or loss of
00:21:43
income or Also funnyman bad how bad
was the sanitation in the area
00:21:50
already before the mud fight so over the
course there was no free town has unique
00:21:56
reasons why they have limited access to
clean or to one because over to progress
00:22:02
the area is
00:22:03
a. Must over the water sources that in
the meaning people have to walk long
00:22:10
distances to get water that is
one aspect and when they get
00:22:17
the quality of eats. Even
before this incident is
00:22:22
a cost. That was Dr Robert Mitchell key
the well Health Organization's emergency
00:22:28
preparedness officer he was speaking to
reconstruct from Freetown the UN to advance
00:22:33
fund reports an alarming increase in the
use of so-called human bombs by Boko Haram
00:22:39
insurgency in north east one theory Lisa
Sharon reports for the US from Geneva. The
00:22:45
U.N. Children's Fund reports
00:22:47
a four fold increase over all of last
year in the number of children especially
00:22:52
girls being used as so-called human bombs
by Boko Haram militants in northeast
00:22:58
Nigeria UNICEF spokeswoman Marie ksi Makoto
says eighty three children were forced
00:23:04
to go on suicide missions she says fifty
five of the children were girls under the
00:23:09
age of fifteen twenty seven were boys and
one was an infant strapped to her girl
00:23:16
she says the consequences for all children
are terrible because of their role as
00:23:20
human bombs She tells V.O.A.
00:23:23
Children are widely viewed with suspicion
there's an extraordinary level of tension
00:23:29
obviously in these communities and people
are afraid of children who have been.
00:23:36
Victimized in this absolutely appalling
way there are instances of children being
00:23:42
ostracized by their communities and worse
so yes like terrible things are happening
00:23:47
to children after already horrific things
have happened to them UNICEF calls the
00:23:53
use of children as human bombs and atrocity
and says they are above all victims and
00:23:59
not perpetrators it says rejecting children
who have been released by Boko Haram or
00:24:04
have escaped simply compounds their suffering
the agency notes most of the attacks
00:24:10
are on so-called soft targets such as markets
schools universities and displacement
00:24:16
camps and most take place in Borno
State Lisa shrine for V.O.A.
00:24:21
News Geneva. Hundreds of South Sudanese
children separated from their parents while
00:24:27
fled fighting in South Sudan last year say
they have yet to be reunited with their
00:24:32
loved ones and majority of company
children either live along or with younger
00:24:37
siblings in Uganda refugee camps with
little or no support from nonprofit
00:24:42
organizations Simon Peter
00:24:44
a pickle has the story from money in northern
Uganda when fighting erupted in Juba
00:24:50
a year ago last July between government
soldiers and troops loyal to former first
00:24:55
vice president of mature violence quickly
spread to him at home states buggery
00:25:01
County sixteen year old Sakina
Christian who was living with
00:25:04
a sixteen year old stepsister in an eighteen
year old brother in Europe is really
00:25:09
sick in
00:25:10
a siblings escaped from their village but
their mother remained in the military on
00:25:15
because she was running
00:25:16
a business Sakina says she's been looking
after her siblings at the Our Gaza
00:25:21
refugee settlement in
00:25:22
a Germany district ever since they arrived
in Uganda last here my father there and
00:25:28
those then five claimed my have mana pools
that only normally see if you can hear
00:25:35
sixteen year old Irene phoning sees she
parted ways with her mother in the
00:25:39
confusion and chaos that followed the arrival
of governments all use that burglary
00:25:44
in July twenty sixth team Irene ses she
has been on own at the border kept in
00:25:50
northern Uganda for more than a year.
Save the Children and they look through
00:25:56
a new world for the rich and are trying to
help hundreds of unaccompanied children
00:26:01
like
00:26:01
a really insecure by constructing small
houses and enrolling the refugee children
00:26:07
in school Sakina her stepsister her brother
and Irene attend their cause of primary
00:26:13
school and next of kin and I really
want to be with their siblings unit in
00:26:18
a sister or lucky woman in the camp or
sympathize with the children and write to
00:26:23
their. To stay with her family secure and
safe the food rations the receiver not
00:26:27
enough to last
00:26:28
a terror month so they must find other
means to buy food and school materials we
00:26:34
share
00:26:34
a chapel and we pay I suppose. A money
says she must also work her to earn some
00:26:41
money because her scholarship
covers only to Asian and
00:26:44
a little food been the school fees they
feed the fee and then they bought what is
00:26:49
in the uniform that is what they're given
for the but blows the will spend on it
00:26:55
giving it up for Grace is
00:26:57
a forced appearance at the camp grief see
she adopted three children aged eleven
00:27:03
nine and seven whom she from wondering
around the settlement they way they said
00:27:09
they had them and their money their money
and then I decided to add the other one
00:27:12
day the endo on ways the offender if they
Deford as I did they don't move in the
00:27:17
five days and I because the this is they
were as they would have thought they did
00:27:21
just that in making that doing the follow
the absinthe ad that people in India came
00:27:26
when I decided that they can't get children
you in it see your spokesman in Uganda
00:27:30
Charlie sleeze sees nearly two thirds of
this South Sudanese refugee population is
00:27:35
generally under the age of eighteen and
that includes conference and unaccompanied
00:27:41
minors he say supporting
his children presents
00:27:44
a huge challenge to the UN Refugee Agency
and its partners for viewing the news
00:27:50
Simon Peter people who you know do many.
That's it for this Wednesday August twenty
00:27:56
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00:28:00
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Today is Wednesday August twenty third
this is via ways international edition I'm
00:29:35
Lori London in Washington
coming up President Trump holds
00:29:38
a campaign rally in Arizona and again goes
after the media truly designers people
00:29:45
in the media and the fake media they make
up stories they have no sources in many
00:29:50
cases can American really have diplomacy
without enough diplomats What if there
00:29:57
is
00:29:58
a problem in New Orleans where Germany you
don't have an ambassador there the AIDS
00:30:03
epidemic where things stand in the U.S.
00:30:06
Also ahead America loses
00:30:08
a beloved legend of comedy its all in today's
international edition Well protesters
00:30:14
engaged in minor scuffles and shouting
matches with Donald Trump supporters Tuesday
00:30:18
as hundreds of people
lined up to get inside
00:30:20
a rally that marks his first political event
since the violence in Charlottesville
00:30:25
Virginia now Phoenix Arizona leaders were
on high alert in the aftermath of the
00:30:30
deadly protests in the president's
comments last week about both sides having
00:30:34
blamed for violence at the White Supremacist
rally Mayor Greg Stanton called on the
00:30:39
president not to hold the rally so soon
after the trouble in Charlottesville but
00:30:44
the rally went on as
00:30:46
a defiant President Trump went after the
media saying he clearly denounced racism
00:30:52
on multiple occasions in the media and
the fake media they make up stories they
00:30:57
have no sources in many cases they say A
source says there is no such thing but
00:31:03
they don't report the facts just
like they don't want to report.
00:31:10
That I spoke out forcefully against
hatred bigotry and violence and strongly
00:31:15
condemn video the white
supremacist and the K.K.K.
00:31:20
. The rally follows a speech should
Monday. The night before U.S.
00:31:26
Troops. And the way forward in Afghanistan
and joining me now to talk more about
00:31:32
that speech on Monday on
the longest war in U.S.
00:31:36
History and the president's new strategy
is Will Fisher director of government
00:31:41
relations with the nonprofit organization
00:31:43
a Vote Vets the largest progressive
veterans organization in the U.S.
00:31:47
With over five hundred thousand members
Well what did you make of President Trump
00:31:52
speech on Afghanistan he called good Donald
Trump gave on Afghanistan was classic
00:31:58
Donald Trump It was
00:32:00
a warm substance. And couldn't properly
for bring I want to be crystal clear the
00:32:06
purpose of the speech was not who discuss
00:32:10
a way forward in Afghanistan the purpose
or my speech was Donald being sort of
00:32:15
described grading. Warning to flip
the script as any reality T.V.
00:32:20
Still or would Donald Trump numbers are in
00:32:23
a complete freefall and they
have been safely in the wake of
00:32:27
a quick ating not be an on the white
supremacist you know what did he do called
00:32:33
together you know the game. The
game of the defense it can't be
00:32:40
a big call by President back early from an
overseas trip and said is great we need
00:32:47
a plot a plot twist for
00:32:49
a major character that would be speak
with all about last night could distract
00:32:53
attention away from the fact that Donald
Trump has proven himself to be at best
00:32:59
a Nazi sympathizer but your group is
under the impression that this was all
00:33:03
something merely to change the
conversation but why are you drawing
00:33:08
a conclusion is Afghanistan not
00:33:10
a top priority at this moment in time it
is that Donald Trump plan if it can be
00:33:14
called such
00:33:15
a thing was no real substance and
of no little caring Donald Trump
00:33:22
could have saved us all and you will not.
If he would have simply gone on to his
00:33:27
favorite mode of communication and posted
00:33:30
a photo of him taking care of him down the
road and said very Look it's mine the
00:33:35
policy on Afghanistan there is not
00:33:38
a military solution to Afghanistan
the solution to have been found
00:33:45
in political democratic efforts
00:33:48
a diplomatic effort Donald Trump saying
that he's going to send more troops into
00:33:55
Afghanistan he didn't say he was sending
in more troops he said he wasn't going to
00:33:58
tell us what he was going to do with regard
to. That excuse some of his actions as
00:34:04
it relates to diplomatic efforts and
funding at the State Department those are
00:34:09
certainly going to be gone by
the wayside under the under
00:34:11
a truck to the station I think when
you hear him talk about. To quote
00:34:18
unquote win with our military here suggesting
that we're going to send more troops
00:34:25
now what I do not understand is how
he could think that after sixteen
00:34:32
years of war you would think even the
most neophyte of leaders would see that
00:34:38
simply sending more troops into
Afghanistan with no real plan is not
00:34:43
a strategy for success you mentioned the
motive being potentially to distract from
00:34:50
all the talk about racism and the criticism
that the president has been receiving
00:34:55
Do you think that that's just traction
worked you know I mean look I couldn't help
00:34:59
but wonder why it's like sort of who was
going to be the first person who is Donald
00:35:04
Trump managed to string
00:35:05
a couple of sentences together was subject
verb agreement would go on television
00:35:09
and talk about how Tonight Donald Trump
became president or how presidential he was
00:35:14
we are not going to let Donald Trump
take attention away from this he has
00:35:19
equivocated with see whether David
white supremacist. And we talk about.
00:35:26
This is somebody who you never
know where he's going to come down
00:35:30
a few months ago according to
your video I've got instead was
00:35:34
a hotbed of terror but it required
00:35:36
a. Lab in Afghanistan which is one of the
largest piece of artillery in our arsenal
00:35:42
in
00:35:42
a few weeks ago he is not even sure that we
should be there at all. That is going to
00:35:48
write
00:35:48
a blank check for combat operations in
Afghanistan with no land in sight this is
00:35:54
also someone who speaks a labor
market bleat. About It's
00:35:58
a war with North Korea goes out like
spin art when it comes to foreign policy
00:36:05
whether it's all they do they know as well
or or so morning so for there is really
00:36:12
nothing that shines brighter being barky
Donald Trump's capriciousness more.
00:36:19
Closely as it relates to international
affairs well Fisher director of government
00:36:23
relations with the nonprofit progressive
organization Vote Vets thanks for being
00:36:27
with us on the heels of President from
speech on Afghanistan and talk of diplomacy
00:36:34
as one big part of that strategy there
are questions about how to go about that
00:36:39
there and in other places in the world that
are fragile at the moment as dozens of
00:36:44
positions at the State Department remain
unfilled or have been eliminated Joining
00:36:49
me now for more is former
diplomat and former former U.S.
00:36:54
Ambassador and current president of the
East West Institute Cameron Munter thanks
00:36:58
for being with us or so do you think the
State Department is being dismantled to
00:37:02
some degree it does
seem that way there are
00:37:06
a number of slots for under-secretaries
which have not been channeled there are
00:37:10
a number of fronts which of the assistant
secretaries the people who won the
00:37:13
so-called regional bureaus these are the
people who really make policy these are
00:37:17
the close advisors to the secretary and
normal State Department and what's puzzling
00:37:22
to people like me who look you know
whether. Not There's been Democrats or
00:37:25
Republicans these people are the people
trained in diplomacy especially the career
00:37:30
people but also the pull of political
people who come in they're trained in
00:37:33
a mechanism which is part of the worldwide
mechanism which allows countries to deal
00:37:38
with one another on things from climate
change to nonproliferation to bilateral
00:37:42
issues to political alliances and so the
feeling that one gets and I'm as puzzled
00:37:48
by this as anyone else is that the leadership
of the government that it's the Bush
00:37:53
White House and perhaps even Mr Tillerson
seem to think that changing the way not
00:37:58
changing the policy but changing the way
policy is made is something that's very
00:38:02
necessary and that they would appoint
people until those changes the structural
00:38:06
changes are made the difficulty here is
that there seems to be an assumption that
00:38:11
what diplomats do what they're trained to
do and how they do it is somehow not as
00:38:17
important as having different ideas and
again the analogy that I struggle to find
00:38:22
is you know would you want
someone who is who doesn't have
00:38:25
a driver's license to turn or I'm trying
to say that the people who might come in
00:38:29
would be inept It's just that
their various skills that
00:38:32
a diplomat has Do you think sort of
00:38:34
a control thing that this administration
just doesn't not want anyone from any past
00:38:39
administration this whole
loyalty thing we've heard
00:38:41
a lot from this White House do you think
that that could have something to do with
00:38:45
it and does loyalty even play
00:38:47
a role in this type of situation this to
me is beyond loyalty every group that has
00:38:53
come in famously Republicans turning over
to Democrats rather Democrats turning
00:38:57
over to Republicans initially they look
at the State Department and say These
00:39:00
people worked for my predecessor I just
ran against my predecessor and then they
00:39:04
quickly realize that when
you're trained to be
00:39:06
a diplomat you're serving the country and
you've oily and very carefully and very
00:39:10
honestly serve the person who is your boss
that's your constitutional job and very
00:39:15
quickly everyone I've worked with and I
worked in the Clinton White House and went
00:39:19
on to work in the Bush White House they
quickly realize that they have very
00:39:23
valuable people. We're going to give
them honest straightforward vice there's
00:39:27
another element to this which is not just
00:39:29
a domestic element the way in which our
country talks to third countries let's say
00:39:33
there's an issue about missiles in North
Korea or the war in Syria who talks to the
00:39:39
German foreign ministry it's the American
diplomats talking to the Russian foreign
00:39:44
ministry who talks to the Chinese
now the words it's not just
00:39:47
a question of addressing
00:39:48
a problem it's lateral communication around
the world is carried out by diplomats
00:39:52
and if you don't have the people who are
trained to do that you can miss signals
00:39:56
you can fail to inform people and you very
hard to convince other people to work
00:40:00
with you if you haven't worked very hard
at developing trust with foreigners and
00:40:05
that they understand what you say it's
00:40:06
a question that makes people like me scratch
my head about how does one propose in
00:40:11
this administration to work with other
countries if the people who speak the
00:40:15
foreign languages know the people in
foreign countries are not there to pass on
00:40:19
those messages besides the fact that
we've got about thirty percent unfilled
00:40:23
ambassadorships right now there's also
that push to eliminate some twenty three
00:40:27
hundred jobs from the State Department
budget how concerned are you about what is
00:40:33
happening at the State Department what would
appear to be it's being gutted to some
00:40:37
degree let's just try to look specifically
at what happens when you don't have
00:40:40
people in these jobs there are many people
at the State Department who are open
00:40:44
minded enough to say there are structural
changes that could be made at state that
00:40:48
might be done official For example many
career people have said many career
00:40:52
diplomats have said we have too many special
envoys and maybe a special envoy for X.
00:40:57
Or the special envoy for that doesn't
need to be named it can be for that that
00:41:00
function can people get back into the
bureaus find I don't think everyone is
00:41:04
against any change but the two things about
what you've said that I think are very
00:41:09
important our ambassador real posts that
are left vacant give an impression to the
00:41:13
country where they're big and that that
country doesn't matter you know you can one
00:41:17
can argue that in the modern age you know
ambassadors are old fashioned and we have
00:41:21
modern communications but most countries
take the. American ambassador very
00:41:25
seriously and if you don't have an ambassador
that is noticed by that country and
00:41:30
then there's not only the symbolism but
then secondly there's the actual role what
00:41:34
if there is
00:41:35
a problem in an important NATO ally like
Germany and you don't have an ambassador
00:41:40
there or. China what is the
mechanism by which you make sure
00:41:47
that the leader of that country that you
know that we're really getting our message
00:41:52
across and it's not going to be
misunderstood but if there's not a center
00:41:56
a place where the policies are discussed
and debated and communicated what happens
00:42:02
is it becomes
00:42:02
a very good for use world within which
many people don't know which ideas are
00:42:08
authoritative or not and when you don't
know what ideas are authoritative it simply
00:42:12
becomes confusing and I
wouldn't want to think that in
00:42:16
a situation where you have tensions like
we do at the present with Russia or
00:42:20
tensions over North Korea I
would really not want just
00:42:24
a barrage of different opinions out there
I would like to think that people can say
00:42:28
well at least the authoritative version
from the State Department is this and it's
00:42:32
hard in some cases to find out when you
haven't filled staffed and trusted the
00:42:38
right department former ambassador and
current president of the East West Institute
00:42:42
Cameron Munter. Here are some of the
stories we're following at V.O.A.
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00:43:24
Will approximately a
million people in the U.S.
00:43:26
Are living with HIV and one in seven of
them don't even know it but the number of
00:43:31
infections has been on the decline as
activists now worry that progress could be
00:43:35
reversed if government spending to programs
they've benefited from go away head of
00:43:41
a large U.S.
00:43:42
Conference on AIDS in September we're joined
by Marie Panner executive director of
00:43:46
the National Alliance of state and territorial
AIDS directors thanks for being with
00:43:50
us so what is the state
of AIDS today in the U.S.
00:43:54
Central progress has really been made over
the last thirty years in responding to
00:44:00
the epidemic and you can really now for the
first time probably ever talk about the
00:44:06
end of
00:44:06
a we have all the tools that are necessary
or nearly all the tools that are necessarily
00:44:13
We certainly have the knowledge and the
understanding about what it takes to end
00:44:18
the epidemic and what we really need now
is the political will in order to do so
00:44:25
it's going to take resources clearly knowing
that we could reach and it really is
00:44:30
a matter of result to figure out if we can
get there what will it take to get there
00:44:35
early one of the most important things
related to ending the epidemic would be
00:44:41
reducing new infections we have biomedical
interventions that clearly. We reduce
00:44:46
new infections including treatment of
HIV And what we are what we now know
00:44:53
through various studies is that if individuals
can achieve and undetectible viral
00:44:58
load to where they have virus in their
body but that virus is not active we can
00:45:05
clearly demonstrate that there are no
infections that result the second piece is
00:45:10
for people who are HIV negative there
is an intervention called pre-exposure
00:45:15
prophylactic or prep and that is all about
preventing new infections by also taking
00:45:22
anti-retroviral medication
just like somebody who's
00:45:25
a positive takes medication individual who
is negative if they take the currently
00:45:30
approved medication for Perhaps it is
really a very low chance of becoming
00:45:36
a HIV positive as a result of the
exposure I understand that there's
00:45:41
a big meeting coming up with the AIDS
advocates and the Presidential Advisory
00:45:46
Council I know that this past number of
those advisers resigned from that council
00:45:52
in protest they accuse the president
of not caring enough about H.I.V.
00:45:56
Issues and this would be I am assuming the
first time the council has met since the
00:46:00
resignations What do you expect from this
they are meeting August thirtieth here in
00:46:04
Washington D.C.
00:46:06
I expect that the council will continue
the result forward recommending to the
00:46:11
president that we continue the focus on
working towards the end of the epidemic I
00:46:17
think that one of the clear important
messages is that we still have
00:46:22
a lot of work to do we still have some
huge disparities in terms of who accesses
00:46:26
health care and who can achieve undetectible
viral load status for instance and so
00:46:32
I think the result is that we
really need ongoing support we need
00:46:38
resources for that we need
00:46:40
a concerted effort towards achieving the
national goals that have been. In place
00:46:46
and I think you know I think that the
council will stay resolved in that in that
00:46:51
effort moving forward
there's also a meeting
00:46:55
a real important meeting coming up in
September many many advocates coming together
00:47:00
it's the U.S. Conference on AIDS
and I expect that that will be
00:47:04
a similar push what we really need to
see from an appropriation standpoint is
00:47:08
Congress continuing to maintain their
appropriations for funding the Ryan White
00:47:15
program other necessary services and we are
pleased that Congress continues to move
00:47:21
in that direction with the new fiscal
year about to begin in another two months
00:47:26
Congress will need to pass some spending
bills continue to and can to continue
00:47:31
funding important programs that would
benefit people living with HIV AIDS How
00:47:35
concerned are you that there could be
spending cuts that could be harmful to the
00:47:40
progress that's been made very concerned
in the president's budget propose some
00:47:44
very significant cuts to programs that
provide important benefits to people living
00:47:48
with clothing. The National
Institutes of Health C.D.C.
00:47:53
The secretary's Minority AIDS initiative
in the Ryan White program and if we were
00:47:59
to see those funding cuts implemented
it really would devastate the entire
00:48:04
infrastructure that's been built and put
in place over much of the last thirty to
00:48:09
thirty five years and so as Congress
continues their work as you as you mentioned
00:48:14
towards the funding for fiscal year eighteen
we really need to see funding levels
00:48:20
maintained and actually some of the cuts
were actually it put in place in two
00:48:25
thousand and seventeen restored part C.
00:48:28
And why did HIV AIDS program had
a cut and the C.D.C.'s S.T.D.
00:48:33
Prevention program which is very closely
related to HIV programming those cuts need
00:48:38
to be restored we have been hearing much
lately about the Affordable Care Act It
00:48:42
seems for now it's staying in place
although there has been. Of the president
00:48:47
cutting funding for it which
would probably create quite
00:48:50
a few problems how would this impact
benefits people receive for HIV AIDS the
00:48:55
health care coverage is critical for people
living with HIV It really is time for
00:49:01
us to come to some kind of
00:49:02
a bipartisan solution that protect and
improve the health care of all Americans
00:49:08
including those living with HIV The we
can't keep playing politics with people's
00:49:12
lives all right that's Marie Panner executive
director of the National Alliance of
00:49:17
state and territorial AIDS directors thanks
for being with us this is international
00:49:21
edition on V.O.A.
00:49:23
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00:49:36
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00:49:55
world's worst smelling scratch that checking
out what's trending on social media
00:50:01
we're joined by VIA way Zander pound to
ask you Hey Andrew what's happening Well
00:50:05
a couple days after the big
solar eclipse here in the U.S.
00:50:07
It is still the talk of social media
and people are talking about what
00:50:12
a big reaction it got on social media to
Facebook sixty six million people talking
00:50:18
about the eclipse while it was going on
that created two hundred forty million
00:50:22
interactions more than three hundred sixty
five million video views on Facebook so
00:50:29
big stuff lots of people talking about
this on Facebook Twitter as well more than
00:50:33
six million tweets during the eclipse so
lots of conversation going on but not
00:50:40
everyone who has had their face and digital
media case in point Netflix posted on
00:50:45
their social media accounts
yeah they actually had
00:50:47
a ten percent drop in video plays the hours
of the eclipse which is pretty big news
00:50:53
because A it flicks doesn't like to reveal
00:50:55
a lot of information as ratings particularly
when they're not being watched with
00:50:58
them exactly and B.
00:51:00
The fact they're not being watched they're
publicizing that is pretty bizarre but
00:51:04
it just speaks to how many people are down
their phones took their eyes away from
00:51:08
the television screen and actually looked
up at the sky to see this AM as I say it
00:51:12
just with all the news and the tension
in the country right now I think it was
00:51:17
a really beautiful
distraction and also sort of
00:51:20
a way to step out of the day to day things
that we stress over and realize just.
00:51:26
You know the miracle of this planet and
the universe somehow all of it is so
00:51:32
insignificant comparative comparatively
Yeah that's the sentiment we saw in in
00:51:37
about one hundred forty characters
or so when Twitter but read out
00:51:40
a lot of people and saying that exact thing
yeah that it was nice to look around
00:51:44
and see everybody gathered outside looking
up at the sky they said it was actually
00:51:49
one person I saw said it was the polar
opposite of what was going on in
00:51:52
Charlottesville last week where
you had the protest there and
00:51:55
a lot of division and he added this with
the eclipse was everybody coming together
00:52:00
and unified looking up at
the sun so it was actually
00:52:03
a pretty cool thing in social media certainly
reflected that and it was free and it
00:52:07
was free even better absolutely So anything
else folks are talking about right now
00:52:13
yeah this is an interesting
story out of the U.S.
00:52:15
State of New Hampshire we talk about
00:52:18
a lot of the bad stuff that goes
on in social media so when there's
00:52:21
a good story I always like
to highlight it and this is
00:52:23
a good story so woman in New Hampshire was
in her swimming pool in her backyard and
00:52:27
she tried to get out and the ladder for the
swimming pool broke so she was stuck in
00:52:32
her swimming pool and she was unable to
pull herself out so what does she do very
00:52:37
quickly and very smartly thinks of trying
to grab at her i Pad which is on the lawn
00:52:43
chair right near the pool so she has
00:52:44
a stick there she kind of shimmies the
chair over gets the i Pad and she puts up
00:52:49
a post on
00:52:50
a Facebook group for her community saying
Hey I'm stuck in my pool can somebody
00:52:54
help me out and within minutes somebody
saw that they were able to come over and
00:52:59
help her out of her pool so it was
00:53:01
a really great use of social media and
crowdsourcing to help this woman out and I
00:53:07
don't want to think about what would have
happened if she'd gotten stuck in that
00:53:09
pool and couldn't get out but the fact that
she was able to use digital media to do
00:53:13
so was pretty neat story and shows that
despite all the bad stuff that happens on
00:53:18
social media sometimes there are these good
stories where it's put to good use All
00:53:22
right Andrew we appreciate it you
can follow him on Twitter at
00:53:25
a path. Well and turning now to what's
happening in Hollywood we're joined by rare
00:53:29
dot us content editor Nicole Michel of
Hamish Nicole why don't we lost an American
00:53:34
comedy legend this week yes it was
00:53:37
a pretty hard at last on Sunday
will America last year ilu is
00:53:41
a comedian and actor who's been
in a lot of people's lives over
00:53:46
a decades long career he died in his
last Vegas home at the age of ninety one
00:53:52
surrounded by his family and on Tuesday an
official cause of death was released by
00:53:59
the know about a coroner's
office he died of a steamy
00:54:03
a cardio myopically which is essentially
the narrowing of blood vessels around the
00:54:09
heart which causes the heart to not be
able to pump blood in the body anymore an
00:54:14
official autopsy will not be performed
on Jerry Lewis as he was under
00:54:19
a doctor's care apparently this condition
comes from coronary artery disease but he
00:54:25
is remembered by many of his colleagues
in Hollywood Celine Dion Ellen generous
00:54:32
Jim Carrey Well yeah I'm Shatner and Patton
also all or all quick to take to social
00:54:38
media to share their condolences
and I'm sure this is a loss that
00:54:41
a lot of people are going to feel at this
time for sure for sure he really had
00:54:46
a huge impact on so many people and so
many levels of course with his generosity
00:54:51
with non-profits and children and and
his and his hilarity. And you've got an
00:54:58
update on the hot and heavy romance with
Jennifer Lopez an baseball star Alex
00:55:05
Rodriguez what's the deal they are
continuing to keep things by he they were
00:55:11
spotted at Alex's new gym that he just
opened up in Miami Florida and they did
00:55:17
a little bit of work
00:55:19
a couple workout together I guess you
could say that those is what they gather
00:55:24
stayed together they did
a little bit of bar. J.
00:55:27
Lo is uber And here now that she's gotten
her little did go on to the blue her
00:55:33
television series here and
afterward they enjoyed a dinner at
00:55:38
a local Miami restaurant with
00:55:41
a rod daughter Natasha and Ella So things
are looking pretty good between the two
00:55:46
of them and definitely the world and romance
and they make one good looking couple
00:55:50
they sure do for sure can't argue with
that all right Nicole thank you so much
00:55:55
thank you for having me. Even
listening to international
00:56:02
edition that does it for today but find
us any time at News dot com Thanks for
00:56:07
joining us and thanks to our director Tracy
Carter and our engineer General Smith
00:56:12
I'm Lori London Washington have
00:56:14
a wonderful day. Next
00:56:28
an editorial reflecting the views of the
United States government the governments
00:56:32
of France the United Kingdom and the United
States welcome the recent announcement
00:56:36
by the Libyan National Army or Alan way
that it will investigate reports of
00:56:41
unlawful killings in Benghazi the Elena
has recognized the arrest warrant by the
00:56:47
International Criminal Court
prosecutor for a member of the Allen
00:56:50
a major Mahmud was stuff of blue safe
folly and has suspended him pending an
00:56:56
investigation the United
States calls on the Allen
00:56:59
a to ensure that the investigation is
carried out fully and fairly and those
00:57:04
responsible for the unlawful killings
are held to account our folly
00:57:09
a senior Libyan military commander stands
accused by the international criminal
00:57:14
tribunal judges of personally shooting or
ordering the execution of thirty three
00:57:19
people who were either civilians or injured
fighters in at least seven incidents in
00:57:24
two thousand and sixteen. And two thousand
and seventeen major our folly is loyal
00:57:30
to strongman Khalifa Haftar are
00:57:32
a former general under longtime dictator
Moammar Gadhafi after heads the most
00:57:38
powerful military in Libya and his forces
recently managed to retake Benghazi after
00:57:43
a three year campaign against
other militant groups the U.S.
00:57:48
Is monitoring ongoing acts of conflict
in Libya closely those suspected of
00:57:52
committing ordering are failing to prevent
unlawful killings and torture on all
00:57:57
sides must be fully investigated
and held accountable the U.S.
00:58:01
And its allies will continue efforts
at the international level to pursue
00:58:05
appropriate action against those who are
complicit in violations of international
00:58:10
human rights law or international humanitarian
law whatever their affiliation it is
00:58:16
in Libya's interests to be able to rely on
unified security forces responsible for
00:58:21
the country's security and acting within
the framework of Libya's laws and
00:58:26
respecting international law the governments
of France the United Kingdom and the
00:58:31
United States also reaffirm their support
for the government of national accord we
00:58:36
underscore the importance of the United
Nations central role in facilitating Libyan
00:58:40
led political dialogue welcome the appointment
of the new special representative of
00:58:45
the secretary general guests and salomé and
look forward to supporting his efforts
00:58:50
to facilitate
00:58:51
a political solution in Libya. Was an
editorial reflecting the views of the United
00:58:58
States government.
00:59:25
This is LARRY London with of the
world's biggest hits after this may be
00:59:30
a way. Below I'm Steve Miller
00:59:37
U.S.
00:59:37
President Donald Trump on Tuesday lambasted
the Senate for not passing health care
00:59:42
overhaul during
00:59:43
a Phoenix Arizona rally Tuesday evening
Trump bemoan the fact that the Senate was
00:59:48
only one vote away from passing
00:59:50
a health care overhaul we have to get rid
of the filibuster rule right now we need
00:59:56
sixty votes and we have fifty two Republicans
that means that eight Democrats are
01:00:03
controlling all of this legislation we
have over two hundred bells Republican
01:00:08
Senator John McCain who is undergoing
treatment for an aggressive form of brain
01:00:12
cancer voted against a Republican
health care bill outside
01:00:17
a day of noisy but largely peaceful protest
turned unruly as police fired pepper
01:00:22
spray at crowds after someone apparently
LA Brock's and bottles and officers
01:00:27
a power for typhoon barreled into Hong
Kong on Wednesday. The stone force offices
01:00:34
and schools are closed the left flooded
streets shot of the windows and canceled
01:00:39
hundreds of flights typhoon Hedo came
within sixty kilometers of home Kong close
01:00:44
enough to be considered a direct hit under
Hong Kong storm warning system weather.
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